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Virginia Beach filmmaker Jon Abrahams has won yet another honor. His short film "Will Power" is one of 20 finalists in a contest run by the camera company Canon and veteran director Ron Howard, according to a news release. Abrahams, the 33-year-old owner and creative director of the digital production company Jpixx LCC, entered his film into Canon's Project Imaginat10n contest and learned recently that it had made the cut. Howard and his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard will screen the 20 film finalists and pick five to premier at the project's film festival this fall. "The idea that Ron Howard is going to see your work ... obviously, that's really cool,"...

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Virginia Beach filmmaker Jon Abrahams has won yet another honor. His short film "Will Power" is one of 20 finalists in a contest run by the camera company Canon and veteran director Ron Howard, according to a news release.
Abrahams, the...

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